When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel
From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.
Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news...
Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It's what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in San...show more
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3 of the 4 books I've read recently have been about sisters, and this book was one such sisterly tale. It was another quick read by Barbara O'Neal. This book involved sisters keeping secrets from one another, which is another theme that I seem to keep hitting on in my reading this year.
It's been a long time since a book made me cry...
Or stay up all night to finish reading it! The characters in this book are so perfectly drawn that you feel what they're feeling, and see how they're seeing their life and the lives of those they love and have loved in the past.
This book makesi it onto my "highly recommended" list, the first for 2021!
Or stay up all night to finish reading it! The characters in this book are so perfectly drawn that you feel what they're feeling, and see how they're seeing their life and the lives of those they love and have loved in the past.
This book makesi it onto my "highly recommended" list, the first for 2021!
It was everything I never knew I needed.
Amazing, sad, captivating, satisfyingly tragic. Literally everything I never knew I needed in a book. In my way to find others by this author...
Amazing, sad, captivating, satisfyingly tragic. Literally everything I never knew I needed in a book. In my way to find others by this author...
Loved it! It checked so many boxes: easy-to-read, page-turner, colourful characters, bit of escapism thrown in. Also enjoyed the Santa Cruz/New Zealand setting and all the surfing references.
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